Tip: use the axis:axis:1.4 Maven artifact if you need Axis 1.4 support

For a Java program that can be run from the command line I used the Maven Assembly plugin to generate a JAR file with all dependencies included.

Although the build was successful, running the software generated a NoClassDefFoundError, caused somewhere in Axis. After a lot of time I finally found some information about the existence of two Axis artifacts in the central Maven repository. Axis 1.4 is available under groupid axis and org.apache.axis.

The POM file of the axis:axis:1.4 artifact includes a number of runtime dependencies, which are not included in the other. Since I used the incomplete version the resulting JAR missed some necessary classes.

So if you use Axis 1.4, define a dependency on the axis:axis:1.4 artifact, not org.apache.axis:axis:1.4.